Cavitation bubble dynamics in a vicinity of a thin membrane wetted by different fluids

Lokar, Žiga (author), Petkovšek, Rok (author), Dular, Matevž (author)

Understanding and controlling the interaction of cavitation bubbles and nearby material is becoming essential optimization of various processes. We examined the interaction of a single bubble with a membrane with different fluids on each side of it. Significant differences in bubble behavior depending on the fluid properties were observed, while the influence of membrane properties was less pronounced. The study has important implications, such as optimization of sonoporation (targeted drug delivery) where the mechanism, by which the permeability of the membrane is increased, is still not well understood. These results show that the focus of the optimization process should, in the first place, lie on the properties of liquids, rather than the mechanical properties of the membrane itself.

• Language: English
• Keywords: cavitation, membrane, visualization
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FS - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2021
• Number of pages: f. [1-7]
• Numbering: Vol. 11
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-124711
• UDC: 532.528(045)
• ISSN on article: 2045-2322
• DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-83004-7
• COBISS.SI-ID: 51047171
• Publication date in RUL: 11.02.2021

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Scientific reports
• Shortened title: Sci. rep.
• Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
• ISSN: 2045-2322
• COBISS.SI-ID: 18727432

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 11.02.2021

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: kavitacija, membrana, vizualizacija